Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009A special court of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) yesterday fixed January 24 next year for framing charges against 62 accused BDR men in a mutiny case of the district.The court also adjourned the trial proceedings till the date.The Bangladesh Rifles Special Court-3 led by its Director General Maj Gen Mainul Islam fixed the date during the proceedings of the case.The 62 BDR men were taken to the 19 Rifle Battalion Headquarters at 8:30 am and produced before the court.During the 30 minutes proceedings that started at about 10:00am, Prosecutor Lt Col Gazi Mohammad Salauddin, also the commanding officer of the battalion, ...
(read more) Monday, December 21st, 2009The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Special Court-3 in Feni adjourned till today its mutiny trial of 62 soldiers of 19 Rifle Battalion Headquarters under the Comilla Sector for their alleged involvement in the incident.The court set 10:00am to resume its proceedings.At the outset of the trial on first day, a three-member court led by BDR Director General Maj Gen M Mainul Islam and including Lt Col Akhtaruzzaman and Maj Maksudul Alam of the Comilla sector, read out a statement of accusation.The accused BDR men were not put on the dock yesterday but would be brought today.They are allowed to take assistance ...
(read more) Thursday, May 14th, 2009Fifty more Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawans were placed on a five-day remand each for mutiny at Pilkhana headquarters while 100 more suspected BDR mutineers were arrested at Cox's Bazar battalion headquarters yesterday.The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka issued the order of remand after the Criminal Investigation Department, which is investigating the case, produced the BDR jawans before it with a prayer for seven days' remand for each of them.Meanwhile, the 20-member army probe committee on BDR carnage submitted its report to the Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed on Sunday without making any official announcement for public ...
(read more) Tuesday, May 12th, 2009About 200 suspected BDR rebels were arrested from different sectors, battalions and camps in seven northern districts yesterday as the police started filing sedition cases against the border troops across the country for staging February 25-26 mutiny.Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) assisted by army personnel arrested suspected mutineers from different BDR units as courts concerned issued warrant against them following filing of the cases.Later police hauled the BDR jawans before the courts in the districts concerned which ordered to send them to jails.Meanwhile, a Dhaka court placed 37 suspected BDR mutineers on a five-day remand each yesterday in connection ...
(read more) Monday, May 11th, 2009The government probe committee formed to investigate BDR rebellion and massacre of army officers at Pilkhana BDR headquarters may take a few more days to submit its report, the deadline for which expires today."We are very close to finalising the report and it may take three to four more days to complete," a member of the probe committee told The Daily Star yesterday.Requesting not to be named, he said they have investigated the incident in details. He, however, refused to disclose any probe findings.The committee headed by retired bureaucrat Anisuzzaman Khan was given a month's time as it sought time ...
(read more) Friday, April 17th, 2009Yet another BDR jawan died in custody yesterday.Havilder Kazi Saidur Rahman, 46, of 13 Battalion, arrested in connection with the February 25-26 BDR carnage, was the 13th jawan to die in custody.Meanwhile, 73 BDR men, 48 from Kushtia and 25 from Netrakona, were taken to the BDR headquarters yesterday for quizzing in connection with the carnage that left 75 people dead.Besides, 20 more BDR men were placed on a seven-day remand each while one BDR jawan confessed his involvement in the carnage to a magistrate.BDR Director General Maj Gen Mainul Islam told The Daily Star, "Saidur died of cardiac arrest ...
(read more) Thursday, March 12th, 2009Investigators have found direct involvement of 40 members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) so far in the bloody massacre and looting inside the Pilkhana BDR Headquarters during the February 25-26 mutiny.The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday handed over 12 out of those 40 border guards to Lalbagh Police Station in connection with the mutiny case filed with the police station, said a top law-enforcing official involved in the investigation of the case wishing anonymity.Meanwhile, Pesh Imam of BDR central mosque Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman, a witness to the carnage in Pilkhana, died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday afternoon after ...
(read more) Tuesday, March 10th, 2009General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 55 Infantry Division and Jessore Area Commander Maj Gen Rafiqul Islam and pilot Lt Col Md Shahidul Islam died as an army helicopter crashed at Rouha of Kalihati upazila in Tangail yesterday morning.Co-pilot of the helicopter Major Saif sustained serious injuries in the accident.An Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release said the Bell 206 helicopter of Army Aviation crashed after hitting an electric cable around 7:50am.Locals and witnesses told The Daily Star's Tangail correspondent that the helicopter first hit an electric line, then crashed into a banyan tree before falling into a pond.The chopper ...
(read more) Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Investigators have so far found involvement of around 450 Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel in the mutiny at the BDR Headquarters while at least 12 of them led several groups of mutineers.An investigation into the BDR mutiny revealed that some outsiders had knowledge about the rebellion, said a top official of a law enforcement agency investigating the mutiny in which 74 people including 51 army officers got killed."We are now investigating whether they took part in the bloody mutiny," the official said wishing anonymity.Meantime, the 11-member enquiry committee, formed by the government to probe the mutiny, interrogated a few accused ...
(read more) Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Hundreds of rebels of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) could flee from Pilkhana headquarters almost unobstructed during the 33-hour bloody mutiny as law enforcers and security personnel did not cordon off a vast stretch of areas alongside the boundary, people of nearby areas said.A large portion of the boundary wall around the BDR headquarters in between BDR gate No 1 and Bay Tannery used by fleeing BDRs as a safe passage remained totally unguarded.No law enforcers were deployed over the long stretch of one kilometre area along the boundary wall, they said.As for the other areas alongside the boundary of ...
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